In bustling Marquette, tensions grow amid $1M condos, influx of new residents

MARQUETTE — For decades, coal and petroleum tanks hugged the Lake Superior shoreline just outside downtown. Today, they’re long gone, replaced by condominiums, a few of which cost $1 million.

In the past few years, residents of Chicago, Arizona and Texas have moved to this mining city of 21,000 residents, bringing higher incomes, expensive tastes and helping to explode the cost of homes.

One of the city’s best-known attractions, the famous Black Rocks, is so popular — and crowded — that tourism officials stopped promoting the cliff jumps out of safety fears.

“I've heard it said that we're the Traverse City of the north,” Bryan LaChapell, owner of Touch of Finland store near Marquette, told Bridge Michigan.




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